Jesuit education, of giving back, and of the ultimate sacrifice made by so many men and women in the service. Frank Faggiano and Mike Mullowney attended. • Our condolences and prayers go out to the families of those classmates whom we recently lost: Mary Thacker Mulcare of Los Angeles and John F. Sullivan of Wilbraham.
nc 1962 Correspondent: Mary Ann Brennan Keyes makmad@comcast.net 26 Ridgewood Crossing Hingham, MA 02043 Most of you should have received the notice I sent about the death of Elizabeth Sweeney, RSCJ, on November 26, 2008. We remember Sr. Sweeney best in her role as treasurer of Newton College, a position she held from 1947 until 1963. She touched countless lives in her years of service as did so many of the RSCJs we knew, and for that we are grateful. I received a few responses as a result of that e-mail, but also many e-mails bounced back. Please send me any change of contact information so we can keep our class list up to date. • Joanne Meehan Berghold writes that she is in the process of moving from New Mexico to Montana. • Mary Corbett, Grace Kane Kelly, Jack and Mary Martha Llewellyn, and I descended on Barbara Jones for a few days in November and had a great time. We had a wonderful evening with Mary Sue Flanagan NC’61 and on another night had dinner with Joe and Toni Lilly Roddy. Toni regaled us with tales of her trip with Ginger Wurzer O’Neal to Greece and Turkey. • VV Martin wrote that she continues to sing at various events, most recently at a political meeting and benefit. She still works about 30 hours a week and always has her bags packed for all the traveling she does. This past year she took a cruise to Scandinavia and Russia, and in the summer she went to Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Berlin for a Zonta International meeting and a vacation. She writes: “Went to my 50th highschool reunion in October. I still try to go to the Newton Book Club meetings.” • As I was writing this, an e-mail arrived from Judy Davin Knotts, who said, “Went to my 50th high-school reunion (Eden Hall) on 91st Street in October. It seemed impossible that the women gathered in the Museum of Modern Art were my classmates…old women, me too!” I remember a group coming back to Newton for their 10th reunion when we were there and thinking they were old…they
were probably around 30! • Carol Dougherty Hollyday wrote: “Just went back to my 50th reunion in Montclair. Saw Barbara Fortunato Hurley, who is just great! We all felt how fortunate we were to have grown up in the era that we did and in such a fabulous town. Our school (Montclair High School) was one of the top high schools in the country at that time. Most of our friends went to Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools. Only Barbara and I went to a Catholic college. We have had such a good, rounded education and feel very grateful.” • Please stay in touch, and keep those regional luncheons going as our college 50th is only a few years away! • We send our sympathy to Alice Hurley Dickinson on the recent death of her husband, Jim. Please keep Alice and her family in your prayers.
1963 Correspondent: Matthew J. McDonnell matthew.mcdonnell.esq@gmail.com 121 Shore Avenue Quincy, MA 02169; 617-479-1714 Sr. Florita Rodman celebrated her 60th anniversary as a Sister of Divine Providence, a long journey from her 1963 undergraduate degree. Early in her ministry, she was a pastoral associate in many parishes south of Boston. She was a founding member of the National Lay Ministry Association and became very aware of areas across the country that did not have parish priests. As a result, in 1999 she was hired as a resident pastoral minister for St. Helen Parish in Amory, MS. The parish has been without a priest for over 15 years. She reports a very rewarding ministry in this parish of people of strong faith. • Congratulations to Phil Landrigan, who recently received the 2008 BC Alumni Award for Professional Excellence. Recognized internationally as a pioneer in public health and preventive medicine, Phil is chair of community and preventive medicine and professor of pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. In 2006, Phil received both the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Children’s Health Environmental Coalition, where he serves on the board of directors, and the Children’s Environmental Health Champion Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Phil has served as a senior advisor to the EPA, where he helped establish a new Office of Children’s Health Protection, and he was a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses. A retired Navy captain, he is currently deputy command www.bc.edu/alumni
surgeon general in the New York Naval Militia. • I am sad to report that at press time I received word of the October 14 death of Peter C. Murray. Peter was a retired sales manager and lived in Cohasset. • May I hear from you?
nc 1963 Correspondent: Colette Koechley McCarty ckm2@mindspring.com 106 Woodhue Lane Cary, NC 27518; 919-233-0563 In the Fall issue, I sadly reported the passing of Jack O’Leary, the husband of Maureen (Meehan) Sennot O’Leary, on August 15, 2008. Many of Maureen’s classmates and other Sacred Heart friends were at his funeral Mass at St. Joseph’s and at the reception that followed. Colette Koechley McCarty’s husband, Tom, offered a eulogy. Also attending were John ’63 and Carol (Donovan) Levis, Sheila Mahony and Chuck Riggs, Jim and Susie Bell Trowbridge, and Margot White. Barbara Jones, Mary Ann Brennan Keyes, and Peggy Brennan Hassett (all NC’62) were there as well. If I have left someone out, I apologize. • In October, Maureen O’Leary, Carol Levis, and Sheila Mahony met at Penny Brennan Conaway’s home in Washington at what has become an annual get-together for them. Also, each year Barbara Jones has a dinner party for us—lots of fun and good talk. • Politics was important this year (not a news flash!) Kathleen O’Riley Burdick’s daughter held an important position in Senator Obama’s campaign, and both Kathleen and Maureen O’Leary were excited and privileged to be in Grant Park on election night. Kathleen and Delie Conley Flynn booked their hotel reservations in DC in October! Speaking of Delie, her son Jesse was married this summer on Cape Cod. Every happiness to the young couple! • Sheila Mahony saw her old Minneapolis friend Mary Westphal Richardson at Hilton Head, where Mary and friends were golfing. As you may remember (Cushingites will), Mary was with us for our freshman year, but she finished school in Minnesota. What a treat to see her after all these years! • Carol and John Levis were in San Francisco for a wedding in October and had breakfast with Kathleen McHale Mulherin. Kathy works in substance abuse counseling, both in private practice and at Kaiser Permanente. They had a great visit. • Dear classmates, please send your news to me or to BC—they are very good about forwarding it to me. It would be fun to be up to date on each other for our 50th. • The very best of every good thing in 2009!